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title: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and p… — Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong · tree and pragmatics
description: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" (Matthew 7:3-5). Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong, sentence 5

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"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" (Matthew 7:3-5).

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** look, pay · **To what, where:** speck, attention, own eye

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.lesson:5
# text = "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" (Matthew 7:3-5).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	speck	speck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sawdust	sawdust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
31	7:3-5	7:3-5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  | the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | no attention |  | your own eye |  | to the plank | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:religion-ethics:097-honest-with-yourself-admitting-you-were-wrong.lesson:5`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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